System initializing, please hold….
Transportation complete…
Starting synchronization with universe…
Introducing energies…Adjusting atmosphere…
Adjusting nearby solar system…
Synchronization complete…
Starting planetary adaptation process…
Intelligent life detected…
Introducing awakening system…
Locking down solar system…
Congratulations earth! You have met the requirements and have been transported into a new universe. Your planet will now undergo a period of evolution and change as your world adapts to the new universe. You will be locked off from the rest of the universe until Earth has been deemed as sufficiently stabilized, after which you will gain access to the rest of the universe. Good luck.
Jake stared at the row of messages that had played out in front of his eyes in quick succession.
“Yeah I''m going insane alright” He laughed nervously. He might have really believed he was going insane if his entire body wasn’t trying to tell him otherwise though, his everything was still hurting a-lot.
Pushing the thought that what he was currently seeing wasn’t real aside. He moved on to the pressing matter at hand, the weird messages floating in front of him.
He read and re-read the messages a few times to get a better idea of what was going on.
In short, the messages told him Earth had been transported into a new universe and Earth was undergoing a period of isolated adaptation to the new universe.
A new universe! he hadn’t quite wrapped his head around it all yet, but surely this meant new and amazing things were waiting to be discovered. Not to mention there had been a message of a change in solar system and atmosphere. And even something about some sort of system!
All stuff that sounded extremely exciting!
“Yeah no, not right now” He would be excited and start wondering about what could have caused all this and how this would affect reality and his life, but right now he just wanted to lay down and maybe do a little manly crying in some corner. He was way too tired to deal with changes to reality after a near-death experience.
“Before having to deal with everything as i know it changing please give me a little break, please reality?” Somehow he felt like saying it out loud would help or something, or maybe that was just his imagination going wild but it couldn’t hurt either way right?
Requirements met…
Starting awakening process…
Error!
Injuries detected - Unable to continue..
Healing injuries…
Continuing awakening process..
Congratulations! You have awakened to the Class: Technomancer!
User may now choose 3 starting skills…
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A long list of what looked like descriptions of abilities appeared in front of him.
He just stared at the messages for a while before letting out a defeated sigh.
Well, atleast my body doesn’t hurt anymore, he thought to himself as he looked over his formerly wounded arm. Right now it looked just like it had before his fight, actually if his clothes weren’t still ripped and torn at places it wouldve looked like he hadn’t even been in a life-on-death fight.
Somehow his mind felt more refreshed aswell, like he had the energy to continue for just a little bit more instead of dropping down to the ground for some rest right away.
Turning his attention away from his freshly healed body and towards the newly appeared list with a few rows of descriptions of what at first glance seemed to be supernatural powers, or as the system said skills?
“Is the system adapting our lingo into its messages? Seeing as it used a term from games and is appearing in english”
He took a minute to calm down and think about the situation. With all the information he currently had he made a few conclusions. First of all, his earth would start adapting, adapting meant evolving. And an evolving earth would surely mean a-lot more danger. Who was to say if the weird panther he had encountered wasn’t somehow because of all this as well, or in any case related.
Because that wasn’t a normal panther, that he knew for sure.
So if everything would start getting more dangerous and god knows what other changes might start happening because of all this. He would need to prioritize his survival.
And what better way to survive than with superpowers, and as luck had it, in front of him right now was a list with just that. This novel''s true home is a different platform. Support the author by finding it there.
Slowly he scrolled through the list, marking down any options he deemed useful or something that seemed like it had potential.
In total he was given about 57 choices with a bunch of them being very limited if he said so himself. Stuff like lightning strike.
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<li>Lightning strike</li>
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In exchange for mana allows to user to strike a target with lightning, as the skill level rises control and power may increase.
Good for combat sure, but they seemed more like one trick pony skills. I mean what else would lightning strike give you in the future besides a stronger and more controlled way to attack.
What if he had to infiltrate somewhere? It just wouldn’t do the trick, plus according to the skill if he ever ran out of mana he would be unable to use it? Yeah he,d rather not die because he ran out of so called “mana”. At first glance it might look good but in the long run it was a very limited skill.
Luckily for him there were also some better skills out there such as; Tech barrier which had more versatile uses.
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<li>Tech barrier</li>
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In exchange for mana allows the user to throw up a barrier. The barrier can be reinforced further if powered by electricity. As the level rises control and strength increase and extra defensive effects may be added such as: thorns or camouflage.
The tech barrier skill for example was a lot better, but even though it was more versatile and in the long run seemed like a better skill with more potential than lightning strike. Jake still didn’t feel like it suited him or his tastes.
I mean what if he ever got into a situation where his mana ran out? What then? And even though it had more potential than lightning strike, it was very lineair in its prospective development. It basically all revolved around something akin to a wall with special effects.
Not to mention the unknown part of how strong the barrier would be and how much of a role electricity played in the skill. I mean his class was techomancer which sounded like a heavily tech-related based class. So surely tech and stuff related to it would play a part in his skills.
The lightning strike skill fit according to this logic, because what was technology without electricity?
Nevertheless, he noted the skill down, it wouldn’t hurt to have a defensive measure even if there were some unknowns. Plus he hadn’t seen a better defensive measure as of yet.
He kept reading through the list and marking down anything he deemed a possible choice until he found four skills that he felt had good enough potential and use. Now he would just need to pick three out of those four skills to acquire.
The first of his options was the skill; Create drone .
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<li style="font-weight: 400">create drone</li>
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At an initial cost of mana, this skill allows you to summon and control drones, as the skill levels up you will get access to a larger selection of drones and earlier versions will receive upgrades. Drones can be used for a wide variety of purposes including; Combat, scouting & automation.
A pretty obvious choice; major potential, wide variety and tons of use with minimal risk. Imagine a combat drone he could control from afar, this would both give him combat capability and safety from a distance.
Not to mention all the miscellaneous uses it would give him such as scouting capability and automation of tasks! In his mind the choice was basically already made on taking the Create drone skill.
He already saw himself commanding an army of drones, or swarmes of drones protecting him from anything that might try to harm him. Or just using a drone to annoy somebody that deserved it.
Like his former neighbour; Josh who always let his dog shit in his yard even though he had asked Josh many times to stop the dog from doing that.
He was already grinning at the thought of having a drone fly over and drop his own dog,s poop in his yard! And then see how he liked it!
Plus the growth potential was insane! Not only would it give him a wide variety of uses, but the drones would also receive additional upgrades? This meant both variety and growth! What else could he ask for?
Yep Create drone was definitely a must have with all the growth potential and the amazing uses it would have.
The second of his choices was; Construction
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<li>Construction</li>
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In exchange for mana, the user can build and create structures, terrain and technology related / limited to buildings. As the level rises you can build more advanced technology and structures.
Again he felt like it was an obvious choice. The ability to create buildings and tech for the buildings was amazing! He could already see himself creating a flying fortress or a hidden base filled with all kinds of advanced gadgets and amazing defenses.
Not to mention if earth really got more dangerous, and he was out here in the wild, he would need some good shelter to protect himself from any possible danger.
Not to mention the potential was great! If he could get access to futuristic defenses and tech he would be golden! He already saw himself sipping coffee from a super-advanced coffee machine. Or taking a heavenly shower under a futuristic shower! Or just defending his garden from Josh and his dog with a turret.
The only downside was that it would only let him build technology related and limited to buildings. So he wouldn’t be able to create a car, but he would be able to create a robot arm attached to the building or just a remote for a tv.
Plus every engineer had dreamed about creating their own house or base with all sorts of cool gadgets and technology. Scrap that, every man ever had.
This skill was a must-have just like the Create drone skill., If only because of the survival potential it granted. But really it was because he wanted futuristic bases and technology and their uses.
Plus the growth potential was really great as well.
Now that he had already made the choice on two of the skills he would take, he would need to make his third choice from his last two options.
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<li>Tech barrier</li>
</ul>
In exchange for mana allows the user to throw up a barrier. The barrier can be reinforced further if powered by electricity. As the level rises control and strength increase and extra defensive effects may be added such as: thorns or camouflage.
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<li>Weaponry creation</li>
</ul>
In exchange for mana the user can create ‘Anything’ classified as weaponry. As the level rises the selections of weaponry and types of weaponry will grow.
He had already taken two skills with both short-term and even more so long-term potential. But what he needed right now besides his already chosen two skills, he needed a more direct method of defending himself. Who knew how long it would take to get combat drones or a safe base set up.
What if he would be attacked again in an hour? He would need a method of defense for the now instead of the future.
Sure the future played a major factor, but he also had to consider surviving the now. The future wouldn’t matter if he wouldn’t reach it after all. If he died because he didn’t have some direct method of defense right now then it would just be useless to have skills that had future potential.
With that reasoning, he had made his decision to choose one of these two skills as his third option.
Tech barrier would be a shield but weapon creation would give him a more direct method of defending himself. And a good attack was the best defense as the famous saying went.
Yet he still felt unsure, he really didn’t feel like getting into another direct face-to-face fight after all. He was already so hurt and tired from a fight against a panther and he definitely wouldn’t want to go against anything stronger.
He had gotten lucky that this system healed him when awakening him otherwise he might have bled to death before reaching a settlement that could help him.
Picking the Weapon creation skill meant he would need to get into more face-to-face fights, whereas with the barrier he just needed to shield himself and escape.
But what if he ran out of mana for the shield while escaping? And who said he couldn’t just use guns or landmines or something with Weaponry creation?
Plus futuristic weaponry sounded pretty awesome, he already saw himself holding a laser gun just blasting through possible enemies while throwing out plasma grenades or something.
It is a man,s romance after all. Plus it seemed like less of a risk than just having a barrier. If i got attacked by another panther which is faster and stronger than me i wouldn’t be able to run and i,d be stuck waiting for my mana to deplete.
A shield is only useful for temporary protection after all, no matter how strong it won''t be able to defend you forever so you,d always lose unless you had a way to return fire.
With that reasoning, in the end he picked Weaponry creation. When he had finalized his decision another message popped up.
Skills chosen…
You may now pick one trait which will grant you a passive benefit..
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